A Texas mother returned home last weekend to find her two young children and husband dead in an apparent murder-suicide.

According to KPNX, Rachel Dawson entered the Fort Worth home to find Luke Dawson, 9, and his sister Bree, 5, shot to death.

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It is believed her husband, Chris Dawson, shot the children before turning the gun on himself.

According to the Fort-Worth Star Telegram, 911 received a call from a woman identified as the children's mother shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday.

Police said they have had no previous calls out to the home.

“There’s no history here,” said Carissa Katekaru, police spokeswoman. “We’re still trying to figure out why. I grew up in North Richland Hills and I would call this a pretty quiet neighborhood.”

One neighbor said he heard a strange noise around 30 minutes before the grisly scene was found.

“Me and my girlfriend were getting ready to leave for work and we had one of the windows open,” said Tanner Franklin. “We heard some weird like yelp-type thing. She was like, ‘Did you hear that?’ I thought it was an animal or something.”

Franklin said the family had put up Christmas decorations just days before the killings.

Another neighbor said she was confused by the horrific crime.

“Oh my God, those poor babies,” Denise Albino said. “I just can’t understand why people do this kind of thing.”